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Identifying and addressing roundabout accessibility issues confronting persons with vision loss in Canada: a pilot study
(2023)
Municipalities and Transportation Agencies in Canada are building more roundabout
intersections to promote efficient and safe movement of traffic for their low carbon
footprint, low lifetime maintenance cost, and better ...
Texture recognition from robotic tactile surface reconstruction: a reinforcement learning approach
(2023)
The ability to handle objects and recognize them and their properties by touch is a crucial
ability that humans have. Thanks to tactile sensing, robots can do something similar by
perceiving specific physical characteristics ...
Experimental fire testing of damaged glulam beam connections retrofitted using self-tapping screws
(2022)
During the lifespan of timber buildings, structural members may exhibit different defects and/or
failures. This may include splits that develop due to shrinkage because of changes in the moisture
content of wood and/or ...
Development of an 18F radiolabeling method using solid phase chemistry
(2023)
New radiotracers are constantly being developed to expand the clinical applications of
positron emission tomography (PET). One of the challenges in the development of PET tracers
is the incorporation of a positron emitting ...
Posttraumatic growth, depreciation, and psychopathology following sexual victimization: a unified model of predictors
(2023)
Sexual violence is amongst the most detrimental events a woman can experience,
with survivors suffering long-term consequences to their mental health and perception of self.
However, accumulating research shows trauma ...
Tripartite preparedness and response during the COVID-19 pandemic: a First Nations’ perspective
(2023)
First Nations and other Indigenous populations experience higher rates of infection and more
severe outcomes associated with disease and illness than is observed in the general Canadian
population (Lee et al., 2023; ...
Efficient path planning and battery management for electric vehicles
(2023)
The rapid advancement in battery technology has brought electric vehicles (EVs) into
reality, and the increasing adoption of autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) has presented
significant challenges. Existing research in ...
Intelligent vehicle-to-vehicle communications with importance of fairness and information freshness
(2023)
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) showcase cutting-edge services designed to
revolutionize transportation and mobility, especially within future smart cities. These services play a pivotal role in bolstering traffic ...
Memory, perception, and evaluation of emotional stimuli: the effects of oral contraceptive use, sex, and gender
(2023)
Little research has examined if oral contraceptive (OC) mood side effects might be due to OCrelated effects on affective judgements or memory for emotional stimuli. Previous studies on sex
differences in emotional processing ...
A new control technology for the development of an air-to-air refueling system
(2023)
Air to Air Refueling (AAR) was first performed over 100 years ago and until now it has
almost exclusively been used in military applications. This is due to the prohibitive cost of
maintaining a tanker fleet to enable ...